has ovd operation seen? ovd meaning oleg vladimirovich deripaska. has oleg deripaska seen? how do we use to get whole? now, how was paul manafort going to use his position on an american presidential campaign to get whole with some russian oligarch? no idea. this is an unprecedented open question in american history. but he and konstantin kilimnik talked about it a lot while he was running the trump campaign. kilimnik e-mails that april, april 2016, to manafort. i have been sending everything to victor, who has been forwarding the coverage directly to ovd. victor is somebody who s working for oleg deripaska. kilimnik says to manafort, i m carefully optimistic on the issue of our biggest interest. our friend v said there s lately significantly more attention to the campaign in his boss s mind. and he will most likely be looking for ways to reach out to you pretty soon. understanding the time
trump campaign chairman, is now facing 25 felony charges. what ended up being the big surprise here today was paul manafort wasn t charged alone, the superseding indictment wasn t just for him, he was charged alongside konstantin kilimnik, kostia from the g.r.u., the guy who back in the day was suspected of narcing out this american pro-democracy outfit that the fsb denounced as an enemy of the state after they somehow got a hold of the internal workings of that organization. old konstantin kilimnik was the guy indicted alongside paul manafort. he became the 20th individual who has been charged thus far in mueller s investigation into the russian attack on our presidential election and the connection between that attack and the trump campaign. of the 20 individuals who have thus far been charged, konstantin kilimnik is the 14th russian individual to have been charged. there s been 20 people charged. 14 of them russians. but konstantin kilimnik, his
hiding in russia after his government is overthrown, manafort and kilimnik seem to continue to have some political work, at least continue to maintain political contacts and some political interests in ukraine with the successor agencies, the successor parties to the guy who they had previously worked for. but the successor government to yanukovych is interested in getting at the corruption. that was part of his administration. and as they re investigating corruption and clep tok rah cy in that government they actually start investigating meaningfully paul manafort and whether or not he was committing crimes essentially against the people of ukraine. is that fair? it s a little bit more complicated than that. actually, it s a lot more complicated than that i think. but especially when you re dealing with ukraine. ukraine is not a monolithic country. it is a democracy, even when it was ruled by yanukovych. when he left, the parties, the forces, the political forces,
the retreat got fired from the organization. a russian guy who had been working for iri got fired from the organization after that retreat in bad circumstances. so that raised the prospect that he was a disgruntled former employee. maybe he was so disgruntled that decided to go narc out this organization that had just fired him to russian intelligence. for that particular employee that was not a far-fetched theory because that particular guy who had just been fired from the international republican institute right before the fsb mysteriously started quoting from what was happening internally at that office, that particular russian guy who they fired was known himself to have ties to russian intelligence. his name was konstantin kilimnik. kilimnik bounced around a bit freelance translating until landing a job in 1995 at the moscow office of the national republican institute. kilimnik did not hide his military past from his new
role here is nothing like all those basically anonymous russians who were charged in the indictment back in february for having been part of that russian social media effort to sway american public opinion. we didn t know the names of any of those people. we didn t have any direct association with any of those folks other than the putin-connected oligarch who supposedly headed up that operation. but kilimnik we know a lot about. from 1995 to 2005 he worked at the international republican institute, this u.s. government-funded entity in moscow. he started off as a translator for them. he worked his way up. his language skills, we know, were acquired at least in part at a russian military intelligence training school. kilimnik became friendly or at least known to a lot of u.s. political operatives over the years he was working with i.r.i., certainly became known to a lot of journalists. after ten years at i.r.i. and getting fired under bad circumstances, he started translating for paul m